On the performance side, you can expect up to 3x the throughput that you’d get if you ran PostgreSQL on your own (you can read Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases to learn more about how we did this).

架構上也是採用 6-way replication 的方式：

It is compatible with PostgreSQL 9.6.3 and scales automatically to support up to 64 TB of storage, with 6-way replication behind the scenes to improve performance and availability.

不過區域就比較受限了，亞洲目前還沒開：

You can use Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility today in the US East (Northern Virginia), EU (Ireland), US West (Oregon), and US East (Ohio) Regions, with others to follow as soon as possible.

For example, let’s say you purchased a db.m4.2xlarge MySQL RI in US East (N. Virginia). The discounted rate of this RI can automatically apply to 2 db.m4.xlarge MySQL instances without you needing to do anything.

包括了相當多種類的 RDS，主要是沒有 license fee 的類型都包括在內了：

Amazon RDS Reserved Instance size flexibility is offered in all regions for the MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora database engines, as well as the “bring your own license” (BYOL) edition of the Oracle database engine. To learn more about flexible RIs, please visit the Amazon RDS Reserved Instances Page.

但不包括要另外收 license fee 的 SQL Server 與 Oracle LI edition：

Size flexibility does not apply to Microsoft SQL Server and the License Included (LI) edition of Oracle.

Logical replication extends the current replication features of PostgreSQL with the ability to send modifications on a per-database and per-table level to different PostgreSQL databases. Users can now fine-tune the data replicated to various database clusters and will have the ability to perform zero-downtime upgrades to future major PostgreSQL versions.

PostgreSQL 10 provides better support for parallelized queries by allowing more parts of the query execution process to be parallelized. Improvements include additional types of data scans that are parallelized as well as optimizations when the data is recombined, such as pre-sorting. These enhancements allow results to be returned more quickly.

PostgreSQL 10 introduces quorum commit for synchronous replication, which allows for flexibility in how a primary database receives acknowledgement that changes were successfully written to remote replicas. An administrator can now specify that if any number of replicas has acknowledged that a change to the database has been made, then the data can be considered safely written.

But what makes Heimdall Data unique in industry is its auto-cache AND auto-invalidation capability. Our machine learning algorithms determine what queries to cache while invalidating to ensure maximum performance and data integrity.

PG-Strom that is an extension of PostgreSQL to off-load multiple SQL workloads on GPU devices, transparently. It has been developed for four years, and now supports simple scan, tables join, aggregation and projection.Its prime focus is CPU intensive workloads, on the other hands, it didn't touch storage subsystem of PostgreSQL because the earlier version of PG-Strom assumes all the data set shall be pre-loaded onto physical memory. No need to say, we had a problem when we want to process a data-set larger than physical RAM.